Meet the Author

Educated in Leeds, Amanda Taylor did some magazine work and won a National Poetry Prize. She played squash for Yorkshire for nine years. Despite living in the middle of a grouse moor, about as far away as you can get from the sea, Amanda completed a successful relay swim of the English Channel and maintains that working out her plots helps the tedium of all those training miles.

All Titles by Amanda

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The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter

The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter is a love story blighted by events in an England emerging from war, plague and the Puritan age.

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Absurd Petunias

A contemporary love story, a spy story and a story of resolution.

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The Falcon With A Virgin’s Face

Based on a true story. How historical events affected our ancestors whether rich or poor.

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Aram

A true story of class and religious bigotry, incest and murder.

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The Vigil of Rain

The Vigil of Rain. As things turned out it would be a weekend I would never forget, none of us would. A murder mystery that will keep you guessing to the end.

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Mortimer Blakely is Missing

Where to put it. That was a major problem.

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Dangerous Waves

A murder story set in the Victorian fishing village of Staithes.

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